Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITlES.

A half-million-dollar fire occurred in
Buffalo yesterday, at which several lives
were lost.
Trains on the Northern Pacific Railway
| have been blockaded for several days by
washouts.
Some 10000 people in Los Angeles have
| lately been vaccinated. Eastern tourists
are leaving the city temporarily.
Beginning to-day the New York Sun will
issue oDe-cent evening edition, similar in
appearance 20 the morning edition.
! Surf bathing at Long Beach, Los Angeles
| county. has begun for the season, and is
| enjoyed by hundreds of excursionists.
Herr Fable, an Austrian who says he
predicted the recent earthquakes, predicts
more for April, and perhaps few for May.
Secretary Daniel Manning sailed for
Europe on the steamer Arizona yesterday.
| He was accompanied by his wife and
| daughter.
jim. Webster, aged 76 years, while en-
route TO California, fell from a railroad
train near FL Paso on Sunday, and shortly
afterward died of his injuries.
While engaged in cleaning and reloading
his Winchester rifle, Hiram White, we'll
known and prominent citizen of Taylor,
Arizona, accidentally shot himself.
The public hangman in London on Mon
| day executed a female Eamesake Mrs.
Berry. She IS the sixth woman who has
been hanged there during the last fifty
years.
AT the regular meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad
March 18th, the proposition will be con-
sidered tc extend the road to Portland
about 214 miles.
A fashionable London doctor has startled
folks by asserting that tight lacing is pub
lie benefit. He takes the unassailable
ground that lit causes the fools among
women TO die young.
Late on Saturday night small boat in
which were Constantine and John, two
Greek fishermen, who were crossing Car
quinez straits, swamped and capsized, and
the former was drowned.
There is widespread CONSERVATION about
| Atlanta, Ca, owing to the prevalence of
rabies in dogs. Several animals have gone
mad lately and bitten scores of people and
| hundreds of cattle, and many terrible
deaths from hydrophohia have resulted.
The following fourth-class posmasters
have been commissioned for California :
Bertha Raymond, Cornwall station, Contra
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signed; Portney P. Tapscott Princeton,
Colusa county, vice Nelson Butler, resigned
The Chicago manager of the Ansonia
Clock Company of New York, John E.
Gledhill, is defaulter to the tune of from
900 to $31 900, and has absconded to
Canada. The bookkeeper of the Chicago
branch, William Watson, has defaulted for
So, 800 and has been arrested.
| The census of the city of San Diego has
been taken and the returns submitted to
the Trustees TO ascertain if it was entitled
TO q change from the fifth to the fourth
class The returns showed a population of
II ,307, and an election was ordered in April
to decide upon the new incorporation.
The town of Red Bluff is agitated by a
murder sensation. Patrick Martin, gener-
ally known as Pretty Pat,n an inmate of
the County Hospital for years past, was
stabbed in the neck. The supposed assail-
ant is Edward A. Adams, cook, employed
in Kestner's cellar restaurant, on Main
street.
Commissioner Combs, of the Salvation
Army, has arrived at Winnipeg, en- route
to the Pacific coast. Combs says it is pro-
posed to commence work among the In
dams in the Northwest next summer
Many of the best officers of the Army
male and female, have volunteered for the
service.
DR.. Kovaleffski. a learned Russian
DOCTOR tells frightful stories of the number
of lunatics in his country. There is room
for only 10000 in the asylums and they
are bruially treated. About 10000 roam
about at large without any care. They ar,
to be met ON all the country roads, anG
they revenge i'll usage by naming litlli
children.